County Commissioner W. J. Harris, (center! signs a proclamation declaring the week of March
20 through 26 "Medic Alert" week in Warren County as James T. Fleming, [left) public relations
chairman, and Robert Turner, president of the Vance-Granville-Franklin-Warren Life
Underwriters Association look on.
Four-County Project Begun To
Help Medically Disadvantaged
The Vance, Warren, Gran
ville, Franklin Life Underwriter
Association announced
Tuesday that it has organized a
four-county Medic Alert pro
gram designed to help people
who have hidden or special
medical problems. The public
service program is designed to
introduce Medic Alert's unique
system of emergency medical
identification to the one-out-of
five people who are candidates
for its protection.
Members of the underw riters
association have small displays
of Medic Alert literature at
Hunter Drug. Boyce Drug, and
Walker Drug, and at Warren
General Hospital.
In recognition of the
program, the county commissioners
have endorsed the
work of Medic Alert in a
proclamation declaring March
20 through March 26 as Medic
Alert Week in Warren County.
The proclamation calls on all
citizens to support this
worthwhile public service
activity.
J. T. Fleming, vice president
and public relations chairman,
said, "Our education program
isxlesigned not only to acquaint
the people with Medical Alert,
but to make it easy for
interested individuals to
acquire membership in this
worldwide organization."
He noted that each piece of
literature distributed contains
an application for membership
in Medic Alert.
Fleming pointed out that
Medic Alert is uniquely
endorsed and supported by the
hospital, medical and nursing
professions, plus the national
organizations of fire chiefs,
police chiefs and sheriffs.
Fleming said Medic Alert is a
nonprofit, charitable and taxexempt
foundation whose
purpose is to provide protection
to individuals with hidden
medical problems or conditions
that cannot easily be seen or
recognized. He said allergy to
penicillin, diabetes, heart condition,
taking anticoagulants and
wearing contact lenses are the
top reasons for Medic Alert
membership, although there
are over 200 common reasons
for persons needing the
protection.
Fleming said the following
people are the ones to contact
about the program:
Sue H. Davis, James P.
Twisdale, William J. Matthews,
Percy R/Stewart, Glenn A,
Nunnery, Lebert A. Howe, Jr.,
Charles Baker, Kenneth R.
Gooch, William K. Anderson,
Johnnie Allen Short, William J.
Hicks, Roland S. Anderson,
James W. Smith, Richard T.
Davis, Clarence Ray Pegram,
Thomas Jordan, James K.
Burch, Dennis Nelms, David G.
Wilson, Melvin G. Paschall,
Linwood E. Guptort, Gafland 0.
Watkins, T.K. Kempton.
Robert Turner, Robert H.
Harris.Council Pinnell, Carl
Williamson, B.T. Smiley, Jr.,
R. C. Young, James Parrott,
Allen Davis, James Williams,
Jimmy Tate, A.W. Harris, Sam
Newton. Luther Hughes,
George Harrison. James Champion.
L.C. Hasty, W.P.
Fleming, and James T.
Fleming.
Fleming also noted that
additional information about
the program can be obtained by
calling him at 257-2718.
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4-H Report Given
By GEORGE W. KOONCE
Extension Afent, 4-H
1977 4-H Recordi Completed: Curtis Wayne Kersey, member
of the Norlina Youth Improvement 4-H Club has completed his
two 4-H protects for 1977. Wayne's project records in Bicycle
Care and Safety 3 and Recreation, Leisure Education I reached
the County 4-H Office Monday morning, March 21.
Congratulations to Wayne as his annual record were the first
received for 1977.
Cumulative Records: Eleven out of thirteen cumulative 4-H
records submitted for district competition have been placed in
the top two for the 16 County North Central District Finals
with some of the records expected to reach state finals.
Pullet Chain: The 4-H Pullet Chain is on for 1977. Chicks are
to arrive April 6. Receiving chicks will be Mark Somerville,
Randolph ¥ ancey. Calvin Alston, Alfreda Boyd, Shelby Davis,
John Hunt, Consherto Williams, Frank Dortch, Derrick Grant,
Ivan E. Alston, Jerome Wilson and Reginald Davis.
Current County 4-H Enrollment: Some 301 members enrolled
in 21 clubs and 217 special interest enrollees for a total of 518.
Two full months (January and February) caused much
inactivity in 4-H. Enrollment is expected to double by the end of
current fiscal year.
Stonewall's Wife Was Tar Heel
By SARA W. HODGKINS
A chance visit to Virginia
totally changed the life of a
Lincoln County girl and made
her the wife of one of the most
famous military men in the
nation's history.
In 1853, Anna Morrison,
daughter of the Rev. Dr. R. H.
Morrison, first president of
Davidson College, at the last
minute decided to accompany
her sister to Lexington, Va., to
visit their older married sister,
Mrs. D. H. Hill.
During the pleasant summer
the sisters enjoyed the
frequent visits of a friend of the
Hill family, Thomas Jonathan
Jackson, a West Point graduate
and professor at nearby
Virginia Military Institute.
Jackson, who was engaged to
be married, had entreated the
girls to "treat him as a
brother."
At summer's end, the girls
returned to their father's
plantation.
Months passed, during which
time the sisters were saddened
to learn that young Mrs.
Jackson had died in childbirth
along with their infant
daughter.
A Tew years later, a
handsome, military man walked
up to the Morrison householdit
was T. J. Jackson, calling on
Anna Morrison. The two were
married July 16, 1857.
Anna spent several idyllic
and uneventful years in
Lexington with her tender and
deeply religious husband.
Jackson's years at VMI had
been termed "bland," with his
military genius not yet
apparent.
Jackson, a veteran ot the
Mexican wars, hoped that the
crisis brewing between North
and South could somehow be
averted — that Virginia would
not secede, but his prayers for
no more war were not
answered.
"The light went out of our
home as he departed on this
spring day," Anna wrote as he
marched away to war. "From
this time forth, the life of my
husband belonged to his
beloved Southern land, and his
private life becomes history."
When Jackson lost all hope of
early return, Anna closed her
home and returned to the
Morrison plantation.
Meanwhile, the brilliant
leadership of Jackson was
emerging as he was successively
promoted to colonel and
brigadier general. Such was the
devotion of his men that merely
his presence was enough to
imspire them on to impossible
feats. He earned the nickname
of "Stonewall" at the first
battle of Manassas, when
General Bee cried, "Look at
Jackson. There he stands like a
stone wall. Jackson's brigade
became "the Stonewall Brigade."
Anna was permitted only
very brief visits with her
husband as the Virginia
campaign wore on. The longest
was three months in 1861 as the
troops wintered in Winchester.
A daughter was bom to Anna
and the general on Nov. 23,
1862, and was named Julia for
Jackson's mother. In the spring
of 1863, Jackson longed for a
visit from his family, which had
.been postponed during the
dreary winter. Anna and the
baby set out for Chancellorsville
and for Julia's first visit
with her father. She was
christened there on the day she
was six months old.
After nine days, the Federals
approached and Anna and the
baby were forced to flee to
Richmond.
About 8 p. m. on the first day
of battle, Saturday, May 2,
1862, Jackson rode ahead of his
troops through dense underbrush.
trying to determine the
enemy's position. It was here
that he received shells from his
own barrages until his aide
frantically rushed back to tell
the Confederates to hold their
fire.
Wounded, Jackson was
carried to the rear where he
bore well the amputation of his
left arm and began to recover.
His wife was summoned, but
could not travel through the
lines until Thursday. When
Anna arrived, she was shocked
by the condition of the general
who had contracted pneumonia
and was sinking fast.
As the end approached, the
baby was brought to him, and
he brightened as he spoke to
her. Anna "nursed her husband
faithfully until the end" which
came on Sunday, May 10, 1862,
at Guiney's Station where he
had been taken to be out of the
range of advancing Federal
troops. He was 39 years old.
The legendary Stonewall
Jackson, after lying in state in
Richmond and in his old
classroom at VMI, was buried
in Lexington, close to his first
wife and baby.
Anna and Julia returned to
her father's plantation for a few
years, and in 1872 moved toCharlotte,
where she was
fondly described as 'The First
Lady of Charlotte" for her
many civic ventures. For the
rest of her life she took special
interest in Confederate veterans
and attended many of
their reunions.
More sadness was to befall
the widow as Julia died in 1889,
leaving two young children for
Anna to raise.
However, this new responsibility
seemed to rejuvenate the
grandmother who showered
affection upon the children
while continuing her civic and
social activities.
Anna died in Charlotte in
1915 in her 84th year, 52 of
which had been spent as the
widow of Stonewall Jackson.
Birth
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Ross of
Warrenton announce the birth
of a daughter, Marsha Renia, on
March 10 at Maria Parham
Hospital, Henderson. Mrs. Ross
is the former Miss Beverly
Stegall, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Marshall Stegall of Rt. 1,
Warrenton. Mr. Ross is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Ross of
Macon.
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